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HiQ aims to become the leading tech consulting company in Northern Europe. An important step to achieve that goal is to enter the German market with the acquisition of the Munich, Augsburg and Berlin-based digitalization consultancy Scandio.

“This is a big step for us and an important moment in HiQ’s history. We are now entering Germany in an awesome manner. Scandio is a digitization powerhouse and has outstanding competencies in IT-consulting, IoT, AI, cloud transformation, and agile software development. Scandio shares the same values in building a business based on strong company culture. I truly welcome the amazing team of Scandio to HiQ – together we will create magic”, says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO of HiQ.

“We recruit newly graduates directly from the universities, and that will increase even more going forward. We are making a big investment with our HiQ Leap program, which will be launched soon.” HiQ's CEO Sven Ivar Mørch said in an interview for IDG. Erik Almén has now joins to build and run the HiQ Leap program.

“Developers, engineers, creators and leaders who come directly from the university are very competent and, above all, they are trained in the very latest technology. Getting Erik Almén onboard to build up HiQ Leap will be the perfect way to ensure that our trainees get a good start with us,” says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO of HiQ.

As digitalization rapidly swoops over all companies and organizations, the need for frameworks for agile development becomes critically important. The step-change in capability however, when those principles are scaled, is mind-blowing! At HiQ we are a trusted partner to a vast majority of the large cap companies in the Nordics and we constantly strive to sharpen and develop our expertise in this area. Accordingly, HiQ has partnered up with the godfather of software engineering – Dr Ivar Jacobson – and his great team at Ivar Jacobson International.

“This is an important step in our development. Ivar Jacobson International is truly the epicenter of knowledge and experience in scalable agile development. To cross that with our vast competence in embedded development, digitalization and transformation, will make our offering within Research & Technology and Business Critical IT significantly stronger”, says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO and President of HiQ.

As a part of its aim for the position as the Northern European leading tech consultant company HiQ has now acquired the IT specialist Headlight Group with the two companies Headlight and Relight. The companies are based in Västerås, Örebro and Borlänge and the close to 100-person team will be a strong addition to HiQ’s offer of services within Busines Crititcal IT.

”I am exceptionally glad to welcome everybody in Headlight and Relight to HiQ. Together we have an amazing competence, strong company cultures and an impressive client list. This is a perfect match, and by combining our two teams we will strengthen our position as the leading consultancy in Sweden when it comes to digitalization, innovation, IT and system development. Super fun and yey us”, says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO and President at HiQ.

HiQ was the only company which received a full score in the Swedish Tax Agency’s procurement for services within IT Applications and is one of the four companies chosen to sign a frame agreement.
“I’m really stoked about this win and that such an important public function as the Tax Agency can benefit from our vast competence within digitalization. A great win for us and a great value for Sweden”, says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO and President of HiQ.

When turkey producer Ingelsta Kalkon chose the marketing platform APSIS One to automate its digital communication, HiQ was the natural choice to integrate the platform. HiQ will develop and administrate the APSIS One integrations using its own Frends integration platform.
“This is a very exciting collaboration in which APSIS and HiQ tie their offers together to create a simple yet valuable solution for our mutual client Ingelsta Kalkon,” says Peter Sognefur, Sales Manager at HiQ Skåne.

HiQ is one of the winners in the Public Health Agency’s procurement of IT consulting services and has signed a framework agreement for a one-year collaboration with the possibility of extension. 

“Winning this contract is really great and it’s extra gratifying that our expertise in digitalisation will be of use to such a central authority as the Public Health Agency. We have all become aware of the crucial work they do and we look forward to helping them continue to progress and improve things for the population,” says Sven Ivar Mørch, CEO and President of HiQ.

HiQ International today announces that Sven Ivar Mørch will be the new Chief Executive Officer and President of HiQ. Sven Ivar Mørch will from 1 December replace Lars Stugemo who leaves the position after 25 successful years in the company, the last 20 of them as its CEO and President.

“It’s really exciting to be a part of HiQ and I have since long been deeply impressed by the company’s competence and culture. In short – we are the rock stars of the Nordic consultancy market, and I’m honored having been given the opportunity to take over as CEO and to lead HiQ in the next stage of the company”, says Sven Ivar Mørch.

HiQ is assisting InfoSolutions with their assignment from the Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten) to increase national accessibility of testing for Covid-19. It involves PCR testing, which diagnoses active coronavirus infection.

“This is the second project we’ve participated in that aims to reduce the impact of Covid-19 on the world. It’s nice to see that our broad knowledge in digitalising the healthcare sector and e-health will help control the pandemic,” says Helena Forsmark, Managing Director of HiQ Stockholm.

The website mdh.se, developed by HiQ for Mälardalen University wins the Guldhanden Award in the category best public website 2020.

“Yeeess! We’re so happy that the results of the great project we did together with Mälardalen University is being recognised this way. This is the result of an excellent collaboration between a brave and visionary client and a very great team from HiQ,” says Anders Nilsson, Managing Director of HiQ Mälardalen. 

The following resolutions were adopted at the Extraordinary General Meeting (“EGM”) in HiQ International AB on
30 October 2020:

Nasdaq Stockholm AB has decided that HiQ International AB (publ) will be delisted from Nasdaq Stockholm. The last day of trading in the share (ticker HIQ, ISIN Code SE0012454619) will be Friday, 13 November 2020. As a consequence of the delisting, the Company will not publish any interim report for the period January-September 2020.

HiQ was the only company which received a full score in the Swedish Tax Agency’s procurement for services within IT Applications. Following a decision by the Administrative Court of Appeal to reject an appeal, HiQ is once again one of the four companies chosen as winners of the procurement.

“It’s a huge thrill for us to know that HiQ is so highly ranked by the Swedish Tax Agency and obtains the trust to continue to help the Ageny to develop systems and services which simplify operations for the tax payers of Sweden”, says Lars Stugemo, CEO and President of HiQ.

Triton Fund V, through Trisall AB (“Trisall”), controls more than 90 percent of the shares in HiQ International AB (publ) (“HiQ”) and has requested compulsory redemption of the remaining shares in the company.